The late enlightenments to the modern and digital world we lives today has caused us setback from venturing into the digital technology systems that's how we've also missed the opportunities to adopt in investing in the BITCOIN when it was earlier introduced. Then we had no knowledge of it and the government fed us with lies that the BITCOIN CRYPTO DIGITAL FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY was a scam and as then, we strongly believed that the government got our back.
I don't think the government is responsible for making people to know about cryptocurrency late. Do you know even till this time their are people who still don't believe in bitcoin (cryptocurrency). I can I agree that the government is been responsible for making people not to have access to cryptocurrency. Their are people that are free to have cryptocurrency but because of ignorance they prefer to go for other investment instead of cryptocurrency.
We don't need to depend on government to know the truth, if you depend on government to know things you will never get to know any thing. One of the ways to be powerful is to have knowledge, when their is knowledge it is impossible for government to take advantage of you from doing the right things .
I agree with you but let's put this to considerations that bitcoin as a new developed digital currency even though it has been introduced for over a decade now, lack of education has been a loophole that the masses get losts in the digital worlds and the government with their aimlessness to bring development in the societies has acted as the bridge making it uneasy for citizens to be suitable in the crypto industries coupled with the fact that the government has made cryptocurrencies seem an illegal technology to the little mindedness of the uneducated citizens.
Although I foremost channelled this effect of the African government because they always considers their self Interest before considering the masses.
That's unlike some developed countries that the governments are willing to welcome and harbour any development with the potentials to bring good wills to the society at large.
Perhaps the displacement of the government is extremely discouraging for vulnerables and uneducated to be adoptive to crypto investments.
So likely, there could be some basic facts such selfish governments wouldn't want us to know about.